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Picture if you will, a sheet of tinted Plexiglas with a hole in one area, or perhaps a door that lifts up to reveal a hole. Underneath the hole is a large, maybe 2 foot diameter wheel-like structure, which hangs from the table. It is partitioned (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Poor Mans Work Table
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(...) Actually I have. After I built this, I already have noticed that same issue. The hard surface is good for sliding pieces off the table, but the tile and front board kind of make the bottom ones get stuck. What could be done is to have a small (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Poor Mans Work Table
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I too really like your table edge- keeping pieces off the floor is important with cats with a chewing fetish. Has anyone thought of putting a 'funnel' or 'pour spout' on their table? I don't have room for such a table right now, but as soon as I (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Poor Mans Work Table
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Nice Table Brad, I use a similar sized table for building on except mine is built on two hollow core interior doors. You can pick one of these up at a lumberyard for about 15-24 dollars (US). They have a pretty strong strength to weigh ratio (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Poor Mans Work Table
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(...) first link, above) is almost identical to those my father and I built when I was a kid and using my parent's basement as a LSF (Lego Storage Facility, for those who missed it). ...Actually, as the story goes, I 'duped' my father into showing (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Poor Mans Work Table
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Personally....I just build on the floor. :) I found a nice table, about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and a foot high, for $10 at a garage sale down the street. But I never use it except to hold stuff I'm not actually working on (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, lugnet.space)
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(...) Nice table Brad! I had an idea I might try if I ever make a work table, top it with that non-skid foamy padding stuff. That way bricks don't go sliding all over. It's a little pricey, and finding a big roll would be a chore, but I think that (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, lugnet.space)
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| | Poor Mans Work Table
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The following work table was my Sundays project. For starters I use to build on a 3/8 inch 4x8 board layed across a printer stand and a old desk. To say the least it was very flimsy. After I started seeing the middle starting to sag in and having (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Yow. I can't begin to imagine sorting 500k pieces. I've got about an order of magnitude lower than that currently unsorted, and I'm not looking forward to that. But, to get back to the topic at hand: When I sorted mine, I first sorted six (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Attic Heat
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Almost all of my Lego from my childhood was stored in an attic for 10 years in Northern Virginia, which can get pretty hot in the summer. The attic had a fan, but if you went searching for something up there in July, you found it FAST, or you came (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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When you get up to 20-50 7-drawer Iris carts, you WILL sort in as fine a detail as possible, trust me :-/ (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Attic Heat
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(...) I've never lived in a house with an attic, but I can tell you I used to keep a gallon ziplock bag of used and abuse pieces behind the seat of my NLS's pickup truck to play with, and they were none the worse for wear, even after baking in 100F+ (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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I just completed a Lugnet post search on "attic heat" and did not read any postings that said: "Attic heat destroyed my Legos." I was wondering if our intuition tells us not to store in the attic but if in all actuality there is no hard evidence of (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Ok, what wasn't quite so obvious was the sub-dividing you were doing. I agree that there is some modest number of global categories of parts. I'd pick a different set than your 21, but the number does depend somewhat on what you tend to build, (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) [snip inventory of huge collection] If my collection was as big as you describe, I would probably still have only 21 (or a similar number) categories. Each category might correspond to a stack of bins, though (Probably each ziplock in my (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting Methods
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Simian's advice was pretty good, so is Jonathan's. (...) Divide and conquer and multi-stage sorting are key techniques to huge sorting problems. (...) I haven't learned that one yet :-) Frank (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Obviously you have a much smaller collection. Believe me, the sorting problem gets worse as you get more pieces. To get an idea, I'll try and relate how much of each of your 21 bins I have... For reference in the following, a "large tub" is (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !
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(...) And here, I just spread out on every flat surface in my kitchen and make little piles. My apartment is only 400 square feet, almost 1/3 of which is occupied by LEGO in some form or another. Generally I make short trips between kitchen and the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) I don't think this is necessary for efficient sorting. I just pick out a handful of pieces of a given type, then put them in their bin, and then a handful of pieces of either the same or a slightly different type, and repeat. But then, I'm not (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting Methods
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(...) I do my sorting in phases. Firstly, the setting. I sit on my couch with the coffee table in front of me. On my coffee table I have several containers to sort into (one for each category). Then I get a big glass of water, a glass of Coke and (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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